What Are Agreed Ways Of Working

Brighterkind’s organisational values and ‘agreed ways of working’ would be:
-Keep it simple;
-Do it from the heart;
-Make every moment matter;
-Choose to be happy
-Sort it.
1.‘Agreed ways of working’ includes a set of rules and regulations , values, policies and procedures of the care home as well as pieces of legislation that need to be followed accordingly in order to provide the best care services possible.
These ‘ways’ are meant serve in offering the best quality of service and are protecting the users of the service as well as the care worker.
2.It is essential to have full and up-to-date details of the agreed ways of working as we need to follow all the policies and procedures as well as all the specific requirements and needs of each

individual we look after that are found in their care plan. We have to make sure that the care plans are also up-to-date and all changes are being recorded. Also, the laws can change and some things that might have been legal to do until a while ago might become illegal. The company have to implement all the new changes in the law and the care workers have to make sure they are up-to-date with these changes and are protecting their service users as well as themselves.
3.Our duty as care workers is to respect the rules and policies of the company along with the legislation and make sure we respect the limits of our job role.
Care workers have particular duties and responsibilities that we are trained to do and we also have limits. For example, we can’t change a dressing without having the proper training for that. If we would do that, we would risk being suspended, dismissed or prosecuted. Every role has certain boundaries and we have to learn ours.
It is important not to go further than our duties and responsibilities as we need to protect the service users and us as well from harm and danger.